penwing.site

Earlier this week I tweeted about the "Enjoy England" advert which suggested an enjoyable way of spending an hour was to take a train journey. My tweet was "Enjoy England are seriously suggesting a train ride as a way to enjoy England...there's a group that's never been on a train...". Friends tried to suggest there are some nice scenic routes out there, and there are, but our train system is in such a shambles I wouldn't call using the service enjoyable.

Back at the start of March I was late to work due to me oversleeping a little and having to get the East Midlands Express service into Manchester. According to the timetable, this should be entirely possible without me being late. Due to experience I know this is not always the case so I bitch and moan about it on here and get the earlier, stopper, train which actually gets me in on time.

It's been a while since I've blogged about the useless of East Midlands Trains (formally Central Trains owned by National Express, now the franchise is owned by Stagecoach) but today they prevented me getting to a meeting on time. The 0816 should get me into Manchester with time to get a banana and chatting to reception before arriving in the office 0850ish. Then I can get down to Didsbury fairly easily for an 0945 appointment. However, when the morons only put on 2 carriages this is still possible - but only if you can get on. Which 90% of the people waiting at the station can't.